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i won't say everything, but basically his ideas grew out of the india's, you know, trying to get rid of the british empire, and he was born in 1901. for awhile there was a kind of muslim, indue unity under gandhi and his movement, but he gradually moved away from that, and he began to articulate, and he was really one of the first people to articulate this idea of an us lamic state based entirely on the law which we hear a lot about now with egypt and the muslim brotherhood and deeply influenced by his writings on his idea of an islamic institution. also one who translated the work into persian for iran, so he was a voice of huge authority in this not only in his part of the world, but also in the middle east, and, you know, he was going to saudi arabia. he was sub subsidizing and patronizing the islam, the political party founded in india, the first islamic party and continues to be a force in pakistan. there's a lot of little offshoots, but basically, these are the parties through which the jihads are organized and sent off to fight either in the northwest territories or in afghani
i won't say everything, but basically his ideas grew out of the india's, you know, trying to get rid of the british empire, and he was born in 1901. for awhile there was a kind of muslim, indue unity under gandhi and his movement, but he gradually moved away from that, and he began to articulate, and he was really one of the first people to articulate this idea of an us lamic state based entirely on the law which we hear a lot about now with egypt and the muslim brotherhood and deeply...
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and this man is like, what condi was to india, this man was to pakistan. but this is another question at the heart of the book. why did this incredibly powerful islamic political leader invited to jewish girl that he had been corresponding with for a year to live with them as his daughter. i mean, here he had nine children, but is inviting yet another woman to his house in pakistan. so it's one thing to sort of go back and forth as to who marion gmail it is, but then you need the historical context. where was pakistan at that time? influence among us, this book is also a book about america and pakistan, america and islam. so you know, i don't want to sort of loose sight of those aspects of the book and the fine-grained because marionette symbolizes a vehicle for a lot of these meditations. but as to the question of what i decided to do with her letters, i felt it was important to have million of the vehicle for the reader to experience her letters with immediacy, and around words rather than me paraphrasing them or, you know, saying welcome and marion says
and this man is like, what condi was to india, this man was to pakistan. but this is another question at the heart of the book. why did this incredibly powerful islamic political leader invited to jewish girl that he had been corresponding with for a year to live with them as his daughter. i mean, here he had nine children, but is inviting yet another woman to his house in pakistan. so it's one thing to sort of go back and forth as to who marion gmail it is, but then you need the historical...
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educated workforce and if they can't get those college-educated employees their competitors in china and india and singapore and other countries can. and believe me they are producing more college graduates. this is a bleak future but it does not have to be hopeless. there's a tendency even within our community to throw up our hands at the challenge to regard large numbers of low-income children of color as the on hope. i am here to say not only that there is hope but there are solutions. take the challenge of helping low income children of color go to college and stay through graduation. for more than a decade unc and a bill and melinda gates foundation have partnered on the scholars program. each year this program awards good through graduation scholarships to 1,000 low-income students of color. african-americans and hispanics and american indians and after more than a decade after granting 14,000 of these scholarships gates scholars have a five your graduation rate of 88%, double the number of non students of color. a six your graduation rate of 90%. much higher than the overall national gr
educated workforce and if they can't get those college-educated employees their competitors in china and india and singapore and other countries can. and believe me they are producing more college graduates. this is a bleak future but it does not have to be hopeless. there's a tendency even within our community to throw up our hands at the challenge to regard large numbers of low-income children of color as the on hope. i am here to say not only that there is hope but there are solutions. take...
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she made a semiofficial trip you might recall to pakistan and india and she was a huge hit. she loved this horse and many photographs you see of her from that time and her time in the white house and on her farm that she ranted and built a farm house right at the end of the presidency in northern virginia so often times when you see her writing she is writing this horse that the pakistani president gave to her. she had thrown for him an amazing state dinner in the springtime and early summer of 1961 at mt. vernon. in fact she had everyone meet and catch a boat to go down the potomac river take an evening cruise and arrive at mount vernon and had beautiful marquees set up at mount vernon and had a beautiful outdoor lovely dinner with music for the president of pakistan and all those invited to state dinners. it still sets the upper bar for amazing state dinners that jacqueline kennedy had. this political symbolism i want to say something about. it taps into emotional and moral and psychological feeling. if jacqueline kennedy is still in our consciousness that is why. she taps
she made a semiofficial trip you might recall to pakistan and india and she was a huge hit. she loved this horse and many photographs you see of her from that time and her time in the white house and on her farm that she ranted and built a farm house right at the end of the presidency in northern virginia so often times when you see her writing she is writing this horse that the pakistani president gave to her. she had thrown for him an amazing state dinner in the springtime and early summer of...
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production overseas to less developed and less regulated countries with the bigger workforce such as india and china because it is cheaper. some say that many of these workers primarily agricultural@r villagers would be even poorer@r without the factory jobs, but said that speculation be the@v basis of acceptable corporate practice?@" these conditions are deplorabler what kin@2d of global society@r composed of supposedly empathetic fellow humans cannot value human life over cheap technology that earns millions of dollars to a handful of people. with these huge problems solutions seem few and far between. it is often difficult to create policies that help the most in need, our global system run on monday, little incentive for governments to help those who have nothing to give. governments must act in the best interests of the citizens palin not in the interests of a meager but wealthy minority that funds campaigns and manipulates connections. governments must be held accountable. many of these major problems stem from governments failing to invest money with the best interest of its citizen
production overseas to less developed and less regulated countries with the bigger workforce such as india and china because it is cheaper. some say that many of these workers primarily agricultural@r villagers would be even poorer@r without the factory jobs, but said that speculation be the@v basis of acceptable corporate practice?@" these conditions are deplorabler what kin@2d of global society@r composed of supposedly empathetic fellow humans cannot value human life over cheap...
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india is opposite. it's only mirror ifed in two periods, when the moguls or the british invaded, none of them were able to extend their rule. so the fact that india is a democracy i don't believe has deep historical roots. the fact it's not chinese-style dictatorship. nobody has ever been able to rule india in that kind of authoritarian fashion. indian society is way too tough. it's organized teen cast, you know, village associations and very powerful religious groups, all of which have resisted any political effort to, you know, to dominate. the final thing, i mention that the eurocentric accounts of modernization don't understand how peculiar european modernization is. i think that's important to remember. when we try to modernize through development assistance a country in the third world today. how was european peculiar? the exist from kinship is not done by a powerful state that demanded that people have allegiance to it. it was done by the catholic church. the church at the end set rules. they for
india is opposite. it's only mirror ifed in two periods, when the moguls or the british invaded, none of them were able to extend their rule. so the fact that india is a democracy i don't believe has deep historical roots. the fact it's not chinese-style dictatorship. nobody has ever been able to rule india in that kind of authoritarian fashion. indian society is way too tough. it's organized teen cast, you know, village associations and very powerful religious groups, all of which have...
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india has been axles which are being hunted down, you have native indians in brazil. even in afghanistan they call the areas where they're doing all the bombing the tribal areas. i want you to speak to the fact that indigenous people around the world are being if under attack. er attack. and is there some way we can get this out into the press so they can understand that this should be stopped immediately? >> guest: well, what you're saying was true. >> guest: what you are saying is true. i was just in norway and the performance with a nsga woman in india under attack by the burmese. i think what it is, there's always the land hunger and indigenous people are vulnerable. there are resources that others want. for instance, in i think it is coaster rica, covered the land and animals and oil. so what we think about is the oil in the gulf. we don't realize that is happening in other regions as well. it should be published. it should be in papers. it is very difficult to have that information. one book that i read was by hawkins. i am sure you remember him from long ago. o
india has been axles which are being hunted down, you have native indians in brazil. even in afghanistan they call the areas where they're doing all the bombing the tribal areas. i want you to speak to the fact that indigenous people around the world are being if under attack. er attack. and is there some way we can get this out into the press so they can understand that this should be stopped immediately? >> guest: well, what you're saying was true. >> guest: what you are saying is...
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and if they can't get those college educated employees, their competitors in china and in india and in singapore and other countries can. and believe me, they are producing more college graduates. this is a bleak future. but it does not have to be hopeless. there is a tendency even within our computer to throw up our hands at the college to regard large number of low-income children of color as beyond hope. i'm here to say not only that there is hope, but there are solutions. take the challenge of helping low-income children of color go to college and stay through graduation. for more than a decade now, uncf and the bill and melinda gates foundation have partnered on the gates millennium scholars. this program awards to 1,000 low-income students of color, african-american,, hispanics, ad after more than a decade of growning 14,000 of these. gates scholar has a five year graduation rate of 88%. double the number of nonstudents of color. and a six year graduation rate of over 90%. much higher than the overall national graduation rate and comparable to the graduation rate from the student
and if they can't get those college educated employees, their competitors in china and in india and in singapore and other countries can. and believe me, they are producing more college graduates. this is a bleak future. but it does not have to be hopeless. there is a tendency even within our computer to throw up our hands at the college to regard large number of low-income children of color as beyond hope. i'm here to say not only that there is hope, but there are solutions. take the challenge...
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-- relationship, the transatlantic is enormously where we live in a time where china and brazil and india the galloping economies are the biggest markets in the world. but i like to start off to tell the audiences that today, in the 800 million people of the indicted states and european union produced almost two-thirds of the world's economic output. $14 trillion of sales are generated by these two economies. they employ 4 million people just as europeans do. european investment contributes 10% of new york gdp. when the yorker out of 20 has of job because of the investment from the european union. that leaves the ultimate prize because these two regions are two of the few in the world that really understand what the position of the individual is in society and in government. three down. all of the things that we take for granted are ingrained in the dna. i would submit to you that keeping the relationship strong is extremely important. that is where but i started to think about nato where it is coming from our headed i thought this is not working because it is that relationship that is st
-- relationship, the transatlantic is enormously where we live in a time where china and brazil and india the galloping economies are the biggest markets in the world. but i like to start off to tell the audiences that today, in the 800 million people of the indicted states and european union produced almost two-thirds of the world's economic output. $14 trillion of sales are generated by these two economies. they employ 4 million people just as europeans do. european investment contributes 10%...
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. >> india, china, brazil and south africa. and they signed on to a thing called the copenhagen accord along with many other countries, including the united states. and under the accord those countries all pledged a certain emissions reduction target to be achieved by 2020. if you total up the pledges for emissions reductions under the accord, they get us about two-thirds of the way to where we need to be to avoid dangerous climate change. so we only need another third, right? you might say, well, they're just pledges. is anyone actually with doing mig? well, in fact, they are rather surprisingly. even the united states is doing things. your target here in this country is a 17% reduction by 2020. you're already at -9% as a result of a lot of initiatives that are not happening necessarily at the federal level, but at the state level as well. in a few months' time, we'll see the opening of the first large emissions trading scheme here in this country in california, adopts their ets. there are a number of government initiatives he
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we live in a time where china and brazil and india and so on, the galloping economies are going to be the biggest markets in the world. but i always liked to start off by telling the audiences that today, today the 800 million people of the united states and the european union produced almost two-thirds of the world's economic output. $14 trillion in sales are generated by these two economies they employ 4 million people, just as many americans work for european firms as europeans do for american firms. european investment contributes 10% of new york's gdp. one new yorker out of 20 has a job or her job because of the investment from the european union. so that, to me, is the ultimate prize, the ultimate prize also because these two regions are two of the very few in the world there really understand what the position of an individual is in society and in government. freedom, all of those other things that we take for granted are ingrained in the dna on both sides. and so i would submit to you been keeping their relationship strong is extremely important. that is where tomorrow when i
we live in a time where china and brazil and india and so on, the galloping economies are going to be the biggest markets in the world. but i always liked to start off by telling the audiences that today, today the 800 million people of the united states and the european union produced almost two-thirds of the world's economic output. $14 trillion in sales are generated by these two economies they employ 4 million people, just as many americans work for european firms as europeans do for...
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putting on the cabin that every town and city many companies toured internationally as far away as india, australia, china, and as a member from the king and all i. the play was seen by more people than had read the book with the book itself remained extremely popular and in 1905, "the new york times" said the most popular books in america are the bible and uncle tom's cabin, and kept up a steady presence. the play was seen regularly until the 1950's and sporadically after that there was recently a wonderful staging by alex morrow last fall at the metropolitan house in the village to read in many of the earlier plays uncle tom was presented as a stoop to a obedient old fool and that's partly where the uncle tom stereotype came from. eva's death in those plays was a scene in which the actress was hauled heavenward by rope or piano wire against a backdrop of angels in the clouds. one might think such battles and spectacle what defang uncle tom's revolutionary themes and turn uncle tom into a laughable piece of harmless entertainment but actually this didn't happen. after all, the play is a
putting on the cabin that every town and city many companies toured internationally as far away as india, australia, china, and as a member from the king and all i. the play was seen by more people than had read the book with the book itself remained extremely popular and in 1905, "the new york times" said the most popular books in america are the bible and uncle tom's cabin, and kept up a steady presence. the play was seen regularly until the 1950's and sporadically after that there...
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the people would give the attacks in india as a counterweight to the military power. all those groups of operational connections now and the experts would be and are inclined to plan operations against the west both at home and abroad, so the question becomes then how vulnerable is the pakistani arsenal and how much would someone get a nuclear complex there's several ways. you could of the clandestine sale of materials which a.q., the father of the program for a number of years you could have a rogue officer take over the nuclear installation work you could have my scenario where the transit from the secured facilities to the front lines and the nuclear alert because that's where it's most vulnerable. so you have a combination of weapons, the country which is hostile, the security service which has ties to the jihadists and a lot of them have been indulged by the establishment and the security, and you have something that is a worry and i would suggest it was the great national security fears that we have. >> in your book you have osama bin laden as a character in the
the people would give the attacks in india as a counterweight to the military power. all those groups of operational connections now and the experts would be and are inclined to plan operations against the west both at home and abroad, so the question becomes then how vulnerable is the pakistani arsenal and how much would someone get a nuclear complex there's several ways. you could of the clandestine sale of materials which a.q., the father of the program for a number of years you could have a...
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it's favoritism by parliament for the shareholders of the east india tea company. there's the government being oppressive, the parliament, and i think it's important to understand what the revolution was about for many ordinary patriots was this effort to set up governments of their own, that their problem was that their governments lacked the power to protect the people and promote their prosperity, and that to understand the movement soully as antigovernment is to understand it really halfway and partly from the point of view of thee most well to do who are always the ones who can do without less government, and not from the point of view of the many people who made the revolution happen. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, barbara clark smith. next is john ragosta. >> thank you all for coming. i got started on this project several years back when i was living in coal pepper county, several hours north of here, and i became interested in the coal pepper minutemen, some of barbara's ordinary people, the classic farmers you read about in high school, shoulder the g
it's favoritism by parliament for the shareholders of the east india tea company. there's the government being oppressive, the parliament, and i think it's important to understand what the revolution was about for many ordinary patriots was this effort to set up governments of their own, that their problem was that their governments lacked the power to protect the people and promote their prosperity, and that to understand the movement soully as antigovernment is to understand it really halfway...
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when he finally bought a home, he went to india and believed that people shouldn't owned property so when you started talking about, you know, the radical king, he was a true radical, and believed not in possessing personal property, but look he borrowed money from his daddy for taxes, and harry took out $100,000 policy life insurance on five kids each. if malcolm had a benefactor, if he had been los langston hughes, then he would have had a different perspective. as we deconstruct capital, the point of karl marx's capital, it didn't extent the value of capital because when the dude tried to marry his daughter, he said can you take care of her? marx said that. i i believe in ira, individual reparations accounts. [laughter] you can't give it to great, great, great grand pa, but you can redistribute wealth to people who inherit ideas, but it makes it undumb bent on us to press the argument forward and to tell the truth of the suffering of the masses who don't have the quandaries we have because they don't have a wage or a salary so when we deconstruct it, let's not talk about obliterat
when he finally bought a home, he went to india and believed that people shouldn't owned property so when you started talking about, you know, the radical king, he was a true radical, and believed not in possessing personal property, but look he borrowed money from his daddy for taxes, and harry took out $100,000 policy life insurance on five kids each. if malcolm had a benefactor, if he had been los langston hughes, then he would have had a different perspective. as we deconstruct capital, the...
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looking for warm bodies, anybody's, to help set up and running the network of new intelligence bases in india, burma and china she immediately volunteered. she didn't care where she went, as long as she got to go and there was a man shortage and a newly formed oss was woefully understaffed. it is important i think to remember that when you think of the oss, you generally think about this paramilitary and guerrilla operations. they get all the glory. you know you think of grainy images of agents parachuting behind enemy lines but the fact of the matter is of the 13,000 employees, about 4500 of which were women, the vast majority spent their time writing reports, collecting and analyzing information, and planning missions. so the fact that many of the oss's unorthodox activities could be conducted from behind a desk meant that women could he equally as effective. and so while the majority of women did remain in washington, helping to support the oss far-flung missions, a very small percentage went overseas, and an even tinier percentage ever went into active operations. but the small percentage
looking for warm bodies, anybody's, to help set up and running the network of new intelligence bases in india, burma and china she immediately volunteered. she didn't care where she went, as long as she got to go and there was a man shortage and a newly formed oss was woefully understaffed. it is important i think to remember that when you think of the oss, you generally think about this paramilitary and guerrilla operations. they get all the glory. you know you think of grainy images of agents...
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even in hollywood india being the new black, i'm sorry, we have a unique perspective that no one else has because of our history. and we can write from that perspective. jewish people l have always had the outsider perspective, they have a unique perspective in their humor that they bring everywhere that's unique to their culture. but that's what we have here in america. no one else has our experience. so we can talk about it. we know the white culture better than they know the black culture. i mean, that's another story. there you go, i'm done. nig at night. >> that's a black thought. [laughter] >> jan? >> no, i mean, i would absolutely echo that, and i think, you know, just like it's very interesting how, you know, i look at a show like a "sex in the city," you know, every sister i know we would look at that show, and we would see ourselves in that show, and i know white women who can look at girlfriends and see themselves in that show. like larry was saying, we have these very common experiences, we have a unique perspective, but, you know, women dating and can relationships and lo
even in hollywood india being the new black, i'm sorry, we have a unique perspective that no one else has because of our history. and we can write from that perspective. jewish people l have always had the outsider perspective, they have a unique perspective in their humor that they bring everywhere that's unique to their culture. but that's what we have here in america. no one else has our experience. so we can talk about it. we know the white culture better than they know the black culture. i...
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i was just in norway, and i did a performance with asami person and a woman from india. she's a naga, that's the name of their indigenous nation under attack by the burmese, and i think what it is is there's always the land hunger, the need -- taking over for land, and the indoing nows people are -- indigenous people are vulnerable because they're in isolated areas or places they were sent that suddenly have resources available that others want. for instance, chevron has in, i think, it's costa rica has just covered the people, the land, the water, and the animals in oil so what we think about is the oil in the gulf, but we don't realize that that's happening in other regions as well so it should be published. it should be in papers, and it's very difficult to have that information be out. one book that i read was by hawk ins, and i'm sure you remember him from loping ago, or maybe not, but the same thing is going on in a way that it's not just indigenous people under attack now like you're talking about mountain top removal, the assault on the land is the same thing. i
i was just in norway, and i did a performance with asami person and a woman from india. she's a naga, that's the name of their indigenous nation under attack by the burmese, and i think what it is is there's always the land hunger, the need -- taking over for land, and the indoing nows people are -- indigenous people are vulnerable because they're in isolated areas or places they were sent that suddenly have resources available that others want. for instance, chevron has in, i think, it's costa...
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when he founded funny bought a crate of 19652 and half years before he died because he had gone to india and believe that people shouldn't own property. so when you start talking about the radical king, what a true radical and believe not in possessing personal property but look he borrowed money from his daddy for texas and harry belafonte had taken out a 100,000-dollar policy and life insurance only to the five kids. this is what professor harris-perry is saying so if malcolm had a benefactor if he had been langston hughes so to speak and could get some of that white harlem dough, then he would have had a different perspective so even as we deconstruct capital, the point of karl marx the construction of capital didn't mitigate against existential assertion of the value and worth of capital, because karl marx said that. can you take care of my daughter? so i believe in either a, it individual reparations accounts. [laughter] and i believe in i.r.a., individual reparation accounts. you can't give us a great great great grandpa but you can redistribute wealth toward some of the contempora
when he founded funny bought a crate of 19652 and half years before he died because he had gone to india and believe that people shouldn't own property. so when you start talking about the radical king, what a true radical and believe not in possessing personal property but look he borrowed money from his daddy for texas and harry belafonte had taken out a 100,000-dollar policy and life insurance only to the five kids. this is what professor harris-perry is saying so if malcolm had a benefactor...
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i mean, india has the nextles which are being more or less hunted down. you've got the native indians in brazil. even in afghanistan, they call the areas where they're doing all the bombing the tribal areas. and i was wondering if you could just speak to the fact that indigenous people all over the world are under attack. and is there some way we can get this out into the press so they can understand that this should be stopped immediately? >> guest: well, what you're saying was true. i was just in norway and did a performance with a sammi person and a notga woman in india who were under attack by the burmese. and what i think it is there's always the land hunger, the taking over for land. and the indigenous people are vulnerable because they're in isolated areas or they're in places that they were sent that suddenly have resources available that others want, for instance, chevron, you know, has been -- i think it's costa rica has just covered the people of the land, the water and all the animals in oil. and so we think about -- what we think about the oi
i mean, india has the nextles which are being more or less hunted down. you've got the native indians in brazil. even in afghanistan, they call the areas where they're doing all the bombing the tribal areas. and i was wondering if you could just speak to the fact that indigenous people all over the world are under attack. and is there some way we can get this out into the press so they can understand that this should be stopped immediately? >> guest: well, what you're saying was true. i...